First observation of a mini-magnetosphere above a lunar magnetic anomaly using energetic neutral atoms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Wieser, Martin ^a   Barabash, Stas ^a   Futaana, Yoshifumi ^a   Holmström, Mats ^a   Bhardwaj, Anil ^b   Sridharan, R ^b   Dhanya, M B ^b   Schaufelberger, Audrey ^c   Wurz, Peter ^c   Asamura, Kazushi ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS; HIGH ENERGY; HYDROGEN ATOMS; LOW-ENERGY COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NEUTRAL ATOMS; PLASMA FLUXES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUB-KEV;

MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

ATOMS;

BACKSCATTER; HYDROGEN; LUNAR CRUST; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; REFLECTIVITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR WIND; SPACECRAFT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 77949279706     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041721     Document Type: Article

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